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got Mr. I 'ant; .In to re-write them, and sign them in ink. This was the h iste ry of the Scrip, No. 8. Th e nex t thi ng M r . Willi ams 'erne , was to make a draft of the will according to the instruct/ ons which he had received, and this was the Scrip, No. 5. It would be found that the draft of the will and tt ae instructions corresponded in every particular, On the 31 st of May, 1934, a will was prepared according to the d ra f t , but nothing remained of it except the attestation. By that vs' ill directions were given to contest the marriage settlement on Jones Panton the eldest son, which the testator express] y stated was obtained from him by fraud. The deed nt. part itiou had not been then executed, and accordingly it became necessary to execute another will, and the will of Ma y , 1 •IBS-4, became the draft of the instructions for the will of 6th Nor. 1834. On the 6th of November, both the deed of par tition and the new will were sent down to Brvnbras, to ranch :Mr. Jones Panton came, and both the will and the 4eedtif - partition were then and there executed by him. Now that evil I corresponded in every particular with the instructions lit the 'testator's own hand-writing, and yet his client was ‘ehargeil with h av i ng f orge d i t ! Instruct i ons were g i ven b y Mr- Pa nton, on the 29th June, 1836, to prepare a codicil. As regarded Mr. Williams. he had no interest in the prepara tion of that document, for all that he could hope to have gained was secured to 'aim by the will. The object of the codicil was to mak e a provision for a servant of the testabor named Jane Thomas I yho ha x i not iseen mentioned hi the will. The draft of instruc tions c, mstitsated Scrip, No. 11, and according to it was ex ecuted on the 16th October, 1836, the codicil, No. 3. A l l that reamined now, was the codicil of the 7th of May, 1837, i Scrip, No. 4, which altered in no wa y the provisions of the 11, but varied merely the amount of the legacy left to Jane Thomas It Was contended that this document was a forgery Nolr 7ca'ase there were pencil marks to be traced upon the paper. had there were no less than nine documents which it was said ' been foieged. Did his Learned Friend see the difficulty which the', had to surmount? Let the jury take the will for ll f st anee, did the fact of pencil marks appearing on the surface sealt Prtave that it was not a genuine document? It was ed h,y Mr. Panton himself, was it likely that he would affi x Ill's seal and signature to a mere pencil map ? Where, in short, was the proof that the body of the instrument was not filled p With the writing in ink before he signed and sealed it? Th e `same observation applied to all the other documents. After, going through the remainder of the evidence for the P r os' icution, the Learned Gentleman said that he had now met very part of the case that pressed against his client fairly a nd manfally, and he hoped to the entire satisfaction of the ' lin. Y. He would now proceed to call witnesses whose elm ra,ter ar,d respectability would not leave a shadow of doubt Upon their minds of the innocence of his client, and he ap- Pe7tled to them confidently for a verdict in his favour. Mr. Thomas Williams was then called, and stated that he twas in partnership with his late father. Is at present the 'Mayor of Beaumaris. Several wills were drawn up in their .office by order of the late Mr. Panton, and were exe cuted by him. The will roduced was made on the 26th of J anuary, 1824. It was a bequest to his sons and daughters of all his personalties, share and share alike. Mr. Jones Panton the younger (since dead) and the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, the husband of one of the daughters, were appointed executors. The next document was a codicil to the will dated the 10th February, 1825, which devised certain lands, tenements, and hereditaments to his then children. Knew the late Mr. Panton well. He was cautious in , his habits of business. The scrips were then handed up to witn ess, and he pronounced the signature on all of them to be that of the testator, as also the seal attached to them. The seal was the same as that which had been affixed to the will, of Jan uary, 1824. Cross-examined by Sir W. FOLLETT. — The draft will pro duced is in witness's handwriting. The alterations were made , 3. his father.—( Witness here put in the instructions of a will, w take n • by his father.) The instructions for the codicil, in 1825, „ er e - partly in the writing of himself and father. Has no doubt 'mit No. 9 is in testator's handwriting ; No. 7 (the pencilled s i c , ri7 .) be believed to be the same handwriting as the rest. Has seen the l ate M r. P anton wr i te w i t h a penc il f requent l y. received 'letters from him. The last he received was in Mr. PaUl• Griffith Panton examined—ls the eldest surviving son , of th e l ate Mr. Panton. Resides in Denbighshire. Mrs. Willi ams, v A . the w if e o f t h e pr i soner , was hi s youngest s i ster. „ s far as h e could judge, Mrs. Williams was a very great r B r ,ourite of hi s f at h er ' s. P rev i ous to w i tness ' s marr i age, i n 26, the manag ement o f hi s f at h er ' s a ff a i rs was entruste d to him, for a per i od of about three years. F rom h i s nowledge: and ob serva ti on o f hi s father's habits of busi ness, he should most d ec id e dl y say t h at h e wou ld not s i gn a document drawn up in pencil. Identifies the signature to the several scrips and papers handed up to him as the hand writing of his father. _ Cre,sf i - exam i ned b y Sir WM. FOLLETT—Did not sec his father much after his marriage in consequence of family dif ferencses. His reason for saying that his father would not sign a rty document in pencil was that he was very suspicious. He Was in the habit of making frequent memorandums with a penc:.l. Cannot say whether or not it was likely his father would drawn up any important paper or memorandum with a pencil. Believes the pencil writing in Scrip No. 7to be his father's; Scrip No. 9is also his writing. By the ATTORNEY- GENERAL. —Has not been on intimate terms with the prisoner. Never spoke half a dozen words to him since his marriage to his sister ; was not intimate with him before his marriage. Richard Mathews Price examined.—ls cashier to the Car n‘rvon Bank ; the testator had an account for twelve years 1 .11 the Bank; was in the habit of paying his checks; believes ''' n • 9tobe in Mr. Panton's handwriting, and also the entire of No. 7. lI ANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.) EX•rn - •.24Slyr. c CONFISCAT ION OF SMUGGLED L e - S EIZURE AND I • Xsyor and Mr. Alderman White were occupied some time his haornin Cust o , .g in hearing an information, at the instance of the Board of bin ' a g a inst Thomas Edwards, of No. 3, Creed-lane, Ludgate r— 'an ho, des cribed himself as a milkman and carman, for having a large etity tea, tobacco, snuff &c., which had not paid duty, concealed ` premises, with i ntent t o d e f rau d her Majesty of the duty. infers olicitor of Customs, after detailing the counts contained in the u n .r n ation, called Golding Bird, the surveying general examiner of Excise, who thataiiivesa.c.tiv e - on the March last he went with Mr. Williams Bullen, t officer of Excise in detecting frauds upon th e rave. the d efendant's house in Creed lane, and in a back . room ground floor, found a great quantity of tea in tin e c r a in ' T i r etrhse, a large chest containing cigars, and an immense sized bag, ,a l iet a h fling m anufactured and unmanufactared tobacco. There w if I - h e ' bag, c ontaining a quantity of snuff. They asked the defendant th a l t e t - h ad. a ny Permit with the goods, and he replied that he had not— the an y had been left there by a Mr. Strong, to whom they belonged. added Mullen Ilullen was examined, and corroborated Mr. Bird's statement. He third That t he defendant had stated to him that this was the ne r fr time that he had received goods in a similar m t a i n ie . Lord A t' il the mine party. The defendant's solicitor impressed upon Path a nd Alderman White that his client was a common Other ;;'" t he goods had been left at his house to be delivered to some acti on, `Y hand that he was not at all cognizant of any smuggling trans. ge izUr e c said that it was only an hour previous to this Wi th a c e a , at t heY stopped the defendant in Bridge-street, Blackfriars, had " containing smuggled property to a large amount, all of which T he " ordered to be confiscated by the magistrates of Guildhall. 41s ° fav toßb M AY 0 a directed that the whole of this seizure should be Penal? fgited ; and after consulting with Mr. Alderman White, levied a It-wa s of 251 * nl*on the defendant, mitigated from 1001. Mated t hat the value of the property seized is about 3001. BRUSSELS PAPERS. &RUSS " fat, st AP RIL B.—Th e meas l es h as b een d rea df u ll y t h i _ tu na winter i n our c i ty. D ur i ng t h e fi rst t h ree months o f 3 Year the number of deaths at Brussels was 1,582, exceed g the number of births by above 300. "'e ici . :a.bre learn b y a l etter from Paris that Bernard Raymond Palaprut), l a t e G ran d M as t er o f t h e O r d er o f t h e ° g ins Templ ars , di e d l ate l y i n the South of France, after he h g eas the p ost o f G rand Master for thirty-two years, and that in his will appointed for his successor t h e ce l e b rate d t_r.S .idney Smith. Few persons know th a t th e O r d er o f t h e ts Templars has continued since the death of Jacques and has continued to have its Grand Masters, among W flom were several Princes of the Blood, for instance the grandfather of the present King of France ; it hap retained its or ganizations and its statutes, and always had eminent men arnoug it members. Messrs. Montalivet, Montobello, Barthe, ecc... arc Templars. VIENNA, APRIL 2.—Ample contributions continue to be re ceived for the relief of the sufferers of the great inundation in Hungary. SIVINEMUNDE, APRIL I.—All the ships destined for the North Sea, which have been here with their cargoes during the winter, are now ready to put to sea, so that they will be tble to sail as soon as news shall arrive that the passage of 'the Sound is open. It will, however, be now some days before they will be able to do so, as the north wind has brought back large masses of ice into our roads, which have b ecome fixed. The harbour is quite free from ice, but floating s ee often appears in the stream, coming from the Huff, which as said to be still for the most part covered with ice. DUSSELDORF, MARCH 25.—Yesterday a domiciliary visit /1 " made in the house of our clergyman, Dr. Boneteuin, who, ° n r eturning from Ch urc h found the police waiting for him. I lia study was first searched ; here they found the beginning 13f a consultatio theoloqica de legitima competentia capituli ,Thhe.fropolit colonensis, which was taken away. We hear that Tiles is the conclusi on o f a great Latin work on the eighteen to 8 , prescrib e d b y the Archbishop. The examination. of iloer correspond ence t oo k severa l h ours , but nothing of ne t stance, was found. All th e d rawer s, &c. in the three rooms wining the library were examined. The following books et,; a 'en —a. " Athanasi us ," by G orres ; b. " Affaires de di c' ee Sne ; c. Dissertatio de non Introducenda (query, Bene teste7o Catholics. puerpera ;" but as Dr. B. solemnly pr0(.04741 (. 0474 1 the books were only noted in the protocol as having been DUTCH FUNDS.—ANISTERDASI, APRIL 10. Money. Bills. Actual Debt 2 1 j_ per r'ent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Abort Syndic,4 Y' per cent 95 95% Ditto, ditto, 333 per cent. 7 9 1 , 11 80 Commercial Company, 4 , ,, per cent lB5 186 Ditto (1R.32 and 1833) 5 per cent. Loan MI6, 4 per cent. Ditto 1837, 6 per cent. 99% 1061,4 Exchange on London, One mouth l2 17.`4 Two months BELGIAN I UNDS—l3ausscfs, APRIL 10. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 1913{, Loan of Thirty Millions 94 !i Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 9S 5 Society of Commerce, 4 1.,', per Cent lO7 Rank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ll4 National Society . —Brussels Papers, April 10. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 2. eve per Cents. IMetalliques F our per Cents Three per Cents Bank Shares ...4llgemeine Zcitung;April 7. LITERATURE. EDINBURGH REVIEW.—No. 135. Longman, London, 1838. There is no mistaking the author of the article entitled George the Fourth, and Queen Caroline," which very properly is placed first in this Number. The occasional happy and vigorous sarcasm ; the complicated involutions of style ; the exquisite felicities of expression, as where al lusion is made to the " clipped morality" of certain politi cians ; and above all, the intimate and minute acquaintance with the stirring events just briefly, but emphatically, glanced at—these are so many irresistible proofs that the article in question is the con aniorc production of one of the most energetic and philosophical statesmen of this or any age. To say nothing of its more valuable qualities, such as its portraits of the public me❑ wbo figured at the commence ment of the present century, which are drawn with uncom mon spirit and freshness and freedom, and sometimes with a dramatic tact that reminds us of Clarendon, this admir able histor:cal disquisition—for so it may be called —pos sesses all the enchaining interest of a Scotch novel, so va rious are its transitions, so glowing the narrative, and so stirring the incidents it embraces. Years hence the his torian of the Regency will pillage it unsparingly, as con taining valuable materials nowhere else to be found in such a condensed and satisfactory form. As, however, the main recommendations of the article arc its contemporary por traits, we shall confine our extracts chiefly to these. And first, of George the Fourth : " George, Prime of Wales, had been educated after the manner of all Princes whose school is the palace of their ancestors, whose teacher is boundless prosperity, whose earliest and most cherished associate is unrestrained self-indulgence, and who neither among their compa nions form the acquaintance of any equal, nor in the discipline of the stminary, ever taste of control. His natural abilities were far above mediocrity; he was quick, lively, gifted with a retentive memory, even with a ready wit; endowed with an exquisite ear for music, and a just ness of eye that fitted him to attain refined taste in the arts ; possessed too of a nice sense of the ludicrous, which made his relish for humour suffi ciently acute, and bestowed on him the powers of an accomplished mimic. The graces of his person and his manners need net be noted, for neither are valuable but as the adjunct of higher qualities. Notwithstanding the lessons ofDean Jackson, and the fellowship of Tharlow and Sheridan, the Prince was a man of ♦ery uncultivated mind ; ignorant of all but the passages of history which most Princes read ; with some superficial knowledge of the dead languages, which he had imperfectly learned and scantily retained ; great facility of modern tongues; and no idea whatever of the rudiments of any science, natural or moral. We have said nothing of the great quality of all—the test of character—firmness, and her sister truth. That the Prince was a man of firm mind, not even his most unscrupulous flatterers ever could summon up the courage to pretend. He was much the creature of impulses, and the sport of feelings natu rally good and kind; but had become wholly selfish through unlimited indulgence. Those who knew him well were wont to say that his was a woman's character, when they observed how little self-command he had, and how easily ho gave way to paltry sentiments." So much for George the Fourth ; now for his mother, Queen Charlotte, a character vividly and forcibly drawn, and containing one or two grave, satirical touches that even Swift himself, in his Journal to Stella, has not surpassed : " Queen Charlotte was a woman of the most ordinary size of under standing, of exceedingly sordid propensities, of manners and disposition that rendered her peculiarly unamiable, of a person so plain as at once to defy all possible suspicion of infidelity, and to enhance the virtue, by increasing the dOculty of her husband's undeviating constancy to her bed. - Her virtue was so much accompanied by superfluous starchness and prudery, that it set the feelings of respect and sympathy on edge; and, though her regularity of life was undeviating, the dullness of her society, the stiffness of her demeanour, the narrowness of her soul, tended to make respectable conduct as little attractive as possible, and rather to scare away from morality than to entice the beholder. The slave of in ordinate avarice, she redeemed not this hateful meanness by any of those higher qualities of prudence and practical sense which are not un. frequently seen in its company. Her spirit was too obstinate, and not untinctured with spite; she was unforgiving'; she was not undesigning ; she could mingle in the intrigues of a Court, as well as feel its malignities ; and her pride knew no bounds, combining the specu lative aristocracy of a petty German Court with the more practical haugh tiness which is peculiar to the patrician blood of this free country. Of the Prince of Wales she had never been a friend until he became Regent, when she became his tool and his slave. On the contrary, she had on all occasions partaken of her husband's hatred of him." From this gentle and bewitching specimen of female sen timent and loveliness, so uncommonly like Spenser's " hea venly Una with her milk-white lamb," we turn to her hus band, who appears to have been every way worthy of such a wife : " Of a narrow understanding which no culture had enlarged ; of an obstinate disposition which no education perhaps could have hu manized ; of strong feelings in ordinary things, and a resolute attach ment to all his own opinions and predilections, George the Third pos sessed much of the firmness of purpose, which being exhibited by men of contracted mind without any discrimination, and as pertinaciously when they are in the wrong as when they are in the right, lends to their cha. ractera an appearance of inflexible consistency, which:is often mistaken for greatness of mind, and not seldom received as a substitute for ho nesty. In all that related to his kingly office he was the slave of as deep rooted a selfishness as his son. In other respects. he was a man of amiable disposition, and few princes have been more exemplary in their domestic habits, or in the offices of private friendship. But the instant that his prerogative was concerned, or his bigotry interfered with, or his will thwarted, the most unbending pride, the most bitter animosity, the most calculating coldness of heart, the most unforgiving resentment, took possession of his whole breast, and swayed it by turns. The habits of friendship, the tics of blood, the dictates of conscience, the rules of honesty were alike forgotten ; and the fury of the tyrant, with the re. sources of a cunning which mental alienation is supposed to whet, were ready to circumvent or destroy all who interposed an obstacle to the fierceness of unbridled desire." This is a genuine Whig portrait of a high Tory and prerogative King, in which we cannot but think the shadows are too broadly marked. The author evidently writes under the influence of an angry feeling, arising, no doubt, from a recollection of the long exclusion from office which his party sustained at the time when the enlightened Fox was at their head. His remark " the instant the King's bigotry was interfered with or his will thwarted," &c., bears manifest reference to the cavalier expulsion of the Whigs from office in the year 1807. Nevertheless the likeness, though harshly painted, is just in the main, as the memora ble American war attests. We proceed to the character of Mr. Perceval : " Mr. Perceval was a man of very quick parts, much energy of cha. racter, dauntless courage, joined to a patient industry, practised fluency as a speaker, great skill and readiness as a debator ; but of no informa tion beyond what a classical education gives the common run of Eng. lish youths. Of views upon all subjects the most narrow, upon religious and even political questions, the most bigoted and intolerant, his range of mental vision was confined in proportion to his ignorance on all gene ral subjests. Within that sphere he saw with extreme acuteness, as the mole is supposed to be more sharp-sighted than the eagle, for half a quarter of an inch before it. He firmly believed, and always acted on the belief, that beyond what he could descry, nothing whatever ex isted; and he mistrusted, dreaded, and even hated, all who had an ampler visual range than i himself. He possessed many qualities, both of the head and heart, which strongly recommended him to the confidence of the English people. We never scared them by refinements, nor alarmed their fears by any sympathy with improvements out of the old and beaten track; he had shared largely in all their favourite national prejudices. From all sordid 'feelings he was entirely exempt—regard less of pecuniary interest—careless of mere fortune—aiming at power alone—and only suffering his ambition to be restrained by its intermix. ture with his fiery zeal for the success of his cherished principles, reli. gious and civil." Of his great rival, Mr. Canning, the Noble author of this essay speaks in these just and generous terms : " Mr. Canning was in all respects one of the most remarkable persons who have lived in our times. Born with talents of the highest order, these had been cultivated with an assiduity and success which placed him in the first rank among the most accomplished scholars of his day; and he was only inferior to others in the walks of science, from the ac cident of the studies which Oxford cherished in his time being pointed almost exclusively to classical pursuits. But he was anything rather than a mere scholar. In him were conbined, with a rich profusion, the most lively, original fancy—a retentive and ready memory—singular powers of lucid statement—and occasionally wit in all its varieties, now biting and sarcastic, to overwhelm an antagonist, now pungent or giving point to an argument, now playful for mere amusement, and bringing relief to a tedious statement, or lending a charm to dry chains of close reasoning. Superficial observers, dazzled by his brilliancy, and by its sometimes being over-indulged, committed their accustomed mistake, and supposed that he who could thus adorn his subject, was an amusing speaker only, while he was helping on the argument at every step; often making skilful statements perform the office of reasoning, and oftener still seeming to be witty when he was merely exposing the weakness of hostile position, and thus taking them by the artillery of his wit. But in truth his powers of ordinary reasoning were of a very high order, and could not be excelled by the most practised master of dialectics. It was rather in the deep and full measure of impassioned declamation, its legitimate combination with rapid argument—the highest reach of ora tory—that he failed; and this lie rarely attempted. This great man was the slave of no mean or paltry passions, but a lofty ambition inspired him ; and had he not too early become trained to official habits, he would have avoided the distinguishing error of his life—an impression which clung to him from the desk—that no one can usefully serve his country, or effectually further his principles, unless he possesses the power which place alone bestows. In private society he was singularly amiable and attractive, though, except for a very few years of his early youth, he rarely frequented the circles of society, confining his intercourse to an extremely small number of warmly attached friends. In all the rela tions of domestic life he was blameless, and was the delight of his fa. roily, as in them he placed his own. His temper, though naturally irri table and uneasy, had nothing paltry or spiteful in it; and as no one better knew how, and when, to resent an injury, so none could more readilyorgracefully forgive." This is a carefully drawn character, but we demur to that portion of it, where the writer asserts that Mr. Can ning failed in" impassioned declamation." Surely his famous speech on the question of the invasion of Portugal is as consummate a specimen of this highest order of oratory as is to be met with in the records of the Senate! It was a grand appeal, not merely to an English House of Com mons, but to all Europe, and was felt and feared as such. The reply possessed possible, st ill more loftiness o f sen timentandimpassi if oned energy of declamation ; and proves that, however magnificent it might be, Mr. Canning could always rise to the level of his theme. The portrait of Lord Eldon is true, in the strictest and most literal sense of the term. " Lord Eldon, to great legal experience and the most profound pro fessional learning, united that thorough knowledge of men which law yers who practice in the Courts, and especially the Courts of common law, attain in a measure and with an accuracy hardly conceivable to those out of the profession, who idly fancy that it is only from inter course with Courts and camps that a knowledge of the world can be de rived. He had a sagacity almost unrivalled ; a penetration of mind at once quick and sure ; a shrewdness so great as to pierce through each feature of his peculiarly intelligent countenance ; a subtlety so nimble, that it materially impaired the strength of his other qualities, by lending his ingenuity an edge sometimes too fine for use. Yet this defect, the leading one of his intellectual character, was chiefly confined to his professional exertions ; and the counsellor, so hesitating in an swering an important case, the Judge so prone to doubt that he could hardly bring his mind to decide one, was in all that practically concerned his party or himself, as ready to take a line, and to follow it with deter mination of purpose, as the least ingenious of ordinary politicians. The timidity, too, of which he has been accused, and sometimes justly, was more frequently the result of the subtlety and refinement which we have mentioned. At all events, no one knew better when to cast it off, and upon great occasions—that is, the occasions which put his interest or his power in jeopardy—a less wavering actor, indeed one more ready at a moment's warning to go all lengths for the attainment of his ob ject, never appeared upon the political stage. When all politics seemed smooth, and the Parliamentary sea was unruffled as the peaceful lake, nothing was to be heard of his Lordship's deep sense of his responsible ditties ; his willingness to quit the Great Seal—the imminent risk there was of his not again sitting in that place—the uncertainty of all the tenures by which official life is held ; and even the arrival of that se ison when it became him to prepare for a yet more awful change ; and the hearer, who knew the speaker, felt here an intimate persuasion that the most religious of mortals could not have named the great debt of nature with more touching sincerity, or employed an expression more calculated to convey that feeling of dread. But in foul weather —the instant that peril approached—be the black cloud on the very verge of the horizon, and but the size of a man's hand, all these notes were hushed, and a front was assumed as if the Great Seal hail been given to him for life, with the power to name his successor by any writing under his hand, or by parole before a single witness. So again in the Council—when there was no danger of any kind, and it signified net a straw what was done, the day, had it been lengthened out by the sun being made to stand still, while our Joshua slew all the men in buckram that he conjured up, would yet have been all too short to state and to solve his difficulties about nothing! But let there come any real embarrassment, any substantial peril which required a bold and vigorous act to ward it off, and no man that ever sat at a council-board more quickly made up his mind, or more gallantly performed his part. With all these apperent discrepancies between Lord Eldon's outward and inward man, nothing could be more incorrect than to represent hint as tainted with hypocrisy, in the ordinary sense of the word. He had lin_ bibed from his youth, and in the orthodox bowers which Isis waters, the dogmas of the Tory creed in all their purity and rigour. By these dog_ mas he abided through his whole life, with a steadfastness, and even at a sacrifice of power, which sets at defiance all attempts to question their perfect sincerity." After giving portraits of Queen Caroline, the Earl of Dudley—this last is an exquisitely finished Cabinet picture —ar.d a few other leading personages of the day, the author proceeds to acquaint us with the origin and progress of the Tory connection with that unfortunate Queen—informa tion which could only have been supplied by one who was beside the scenes. He then furnishes us with some curious particulars respecting . the sudden flight of the Princess Charlotte to her mother's house in a hackney-coach, which had the effect of bringing these vehicles into fashion, for all the Ministers, and even the Duke of York himself, came, one after another to remonstrate with the runaway Princess in hackney coaches ! " There was," says the writer, al luding to this delicate subject— " There was then a Westminster election in progress; and it is said that the Princess, complaining to Mr. Brougham that he was deserting her, and leaving her in her father's power when the people would have stood by her, that gentleman took her to the window when the morning had just dawned, and pointing to the park and spacious streets which lay before her, said that he had only to show her a few hours later on the spot.where she now stood, and all the people of this vast metropolis would be gathered together on that plain with one common feeling in her behalf—but that the triumph of one hour would be dearly pur. chased by the consequences which must assuredly follow in the next when the troops poured in and quelled all resistance. This considera tion, much more than any quailing of her dauntless spirit or faltering of he: filial affection, is believed to have weighed upon her mind, and in duced her to return home.' Speaking of the extraordinary, leech-like tenacity with which the Tories clung to office during the whole proceed ings against the Queen, the author says, parodying Ad dison in a very amusing manner, " There must surely be something peculiarly sweet in official life, and something peculiarly horrible to statesmen in the bare possibility of po litical death, else why this pleasing hope, this fond desire, this longing after longevity—or why this dread of dissolution that snakes the soul shrink back on itself? But in one material particular, the two kinds of life and death widely differ. The official's death-bed is not cheered by any hopes of immortality. The world to which he now looks forward is another, but not a better world. He knows full sure that from the pleasing state of being to which he has been so long used, and so fondly clings, he must instantly, o❑ the great change taking place, be plunged into the dreary night of a placeless existence; be cast away with other mournful ghosts on the tempest-beaten coast of Opposition; there to wander uncertain of ever agai❑ being summoned from that inhospitable shore, or visiting the cheerful glimpses of the courtly day." Of the details of the Queen's prosecution ; of the fears it excited among the Tories ; of the indignation it called forth among the people ; of the King's conduct during the progress of the question ; and of the rancorous spirit which he displayed throughout the whole affair—of all these curious and interesting matters we have such minute par ticulars, as could only have been furnished by one who was himself personally mixed up with, and took a❑ important share in, them. We have read this portion of the writer's historiette with breathless interest ; and it has left on our mind the painful impression, that if meanness in its most unadulterated form; sycophancy in its utmost perfection ; spleen and vindictiveness carried to an extent verging almost on the supernatural ; selfishness unredeemed and unalloyed by tile slightest mixture of principle, are to be found any where, they are to be found within the precincts of courts, influ encing the decisions of Cabinet Councils. Of the author's strictures on the Press we shall say nothing, for they are penned in a sore, consequently in a jaundiced spirit ; and are, besides, mere repetitions of the same complaints that have been urged a hundred times already. On some more leisure day we shall notice the remaining articles of the Number ; but our present notice has grown to so un usual a length, that we must here bring it to a close. THE SUN LONDON, THI:TRSDATI, 7 , APRIL 12, 1835. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, Fcr .the Week ended April (1, a33S, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 5 6 ,. Rd. Oats I Barley 29s lid. Rye '3ls 7d. I l'ease ' 3s. Id. ItIPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TILE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Whoat ...... 56.5. 84. I Oats Barley 295. 24, Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat Barley lBs. 44. I I Rye THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. Fish to-day were plentiful. Soles good, Is. to 3s. and 3s. 6d. per pair for large ; Lobsters, scarce and dear; Turbot, 4s. and ss. to 15s. and 16s. for large. Meat—trade not brisk, prices much as last quoted, where altered a little easier. Beef, 7d. to Bd. and Sid. ; Mutton, 7d. to Sad. ; Veal, Bd. to Pd. and 91d. ; Pork, 7d. to 81d. per lb., all prime meat. Vegetables rather more plentiful, and prices a little lower. In Hay and Clover no variation in value worth naming. CITY FISH MARKET. Common Fish very plentiful and cheap. Good Fish was reasonable, and the supply to a fair extent. Turbot, top prices, 18s., and down as low as 4s. ; Soles dear for good ones, say Is. to 4s. per pair ; Lobsters still high ; Salmon, 4s. per lb. ; Christchurch, 4s. per lb. Trade brisk for the most part. TEA SALE THIS DAY. Not half the original quantity of Tea advertised has yet passed the sale. Some is withdrawn, and considerable quantities bought in. But little sells ; prices as yesterday. The attendance of the trade becomes more slender. BALTIC PRODUCE MARKET. Nothing fresh in Ashes, Turpentine, or Timber. Hemp is securing no public business. Pitch and Tar are quiet, and in value there is no variation. 110 Bales East India Sun Hens sold at public sale at 171. los. to 181. ; 800 bales Manilla were put up, but all bought in at '2B/. to 301. ; Jute, 1121 bales East India put up, but all bought in at 111. lOs to 121. COLONIAL MARKETS. These Markets closed to-day until Wednesday neat. The business transacted to-day is very trifling, there being such little disposition to buy or sell just now. We had a public sale of 7,500 bags Mauritius Sugar. The sale participated in the langour of the last, and prices where altered, are a trifle lower. No other kind of Sugar at public sale to-day. No Coffee in the Market. The little that is done by private contract, is at former prices. In Rice, Spices, Rum, or Cotton, we heard of no transactions. The Market generally is very dull, and very extensive are t m complaints of langour ; prices of goods are now very uncertain ; and the whole:of the Mauritius Sugar put up to sale to-day did not sell. 8.8. Sugar sells slowly, and the Market is uncommonly flat; prices continue much the same. Lowest 55s , middling 605., and best 645. Very little has been sold during the week. Re fined goods are far from being brisk. Fine crushed is quoted at 355. Gil., and Lumps to pass the standard 775. This being the close of the week for public business in this market, we remark that it is some considerable time since such a meagre report had to be made. None of the foreign markets appear to be so dull as we are. To-day we hada public sale of Cocoa; Trinidad 150 bags, and Brazil 162 bags. All did not sell, and where alterations occurred in quotations they must be callcd lower; but comparative prices are uncertain, there having been no public sale for some time. The imports are to a fair extent, and ar rivals of Colonial produce of magnitude would send the market down with ease in its present weak state. Chicory :—The quotations estab lished by public sale is 21/. 15s. to 25/. ss. per ton for the root. COAL MARKET.—ApriI 11. a. d. rer fon. s. d A dal r's 2O 9 Walls End Belmont Ellison Low Main Hebburn Main 2l 0 Walls End Haswell ... Howard's Main 2O 6 Walls End Hetton c,4 H )Iy well Lcaze's Main Ord's lledhugh Original Windsor Poniop l'ictor lB 6 Walls End Ad,laida 22 0 Pon top Stanhope Co. South Hartley 2O Walls End Nevin's Tanticld.. 18 0 . 20 0 Walls End Seymour Tees 21 6 West Hartley 23 0 Walls End St. Helen's Tees... 2 1 9 Wylam Z' 0 Walls End Tees 22 :3 Walls End Gosforth Walls End Grace l9 G Walls End West Tees 2O 0 Walls End Heaton 22 6 Walls" End West Hetton 21 6 Walls End Hilda 2l 0 Middrerig 0 Walls End Hotspur 21 0 Walls End Killingworth Walls End Newmarck l9 9 Walls End Elgin 22 9 Walls End Peareth lB 0 ttussell's Highl Main Ships arrived since last market-day, 94. Per Ton. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, WEDNESDAY. There has been considerable inquiry for Brighton and Great Western to-day, and a large amount of business would have been done, particu larly in the former, had the buyer and seller been able to agree upon the prices—holders, however, named 10,- for Brighton, and did not seem anxious to realise this quotation. The Market closed with a healthy appearance, and with a prospect of some considerable business being done to-morrow. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-AFRIL There has been a moderate demand for Cotton this day, and about 3,000 bags have met with purchasers at our last quoted prices. 200 Americans (included in the total sales) were taken for extort. 300 Pernam, Sid. to 91d. ; 100 Bahia, Bd. to Sid.; 50 Egyptian, Pd. to 01 7 ch ; 200 Surat, 4d, to 51d.; 2,350 American, sid. to 'lid. — Total, 3,000. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen left town yesterday for 'Windsor Castle. Soon after 3 o'clock her Majesty and her august Mother, attended by Lady Portman, left the New Palace in an open carriage and four, escorted by a party of Lancers. The Royal suite, in two open carriages and four, followed, consisting of Lady Mary Stopford, Miss Cavendish, Miss Lister, Baroness Leh zen, Miss Davys, and Colonel Wemyss. Her Majesty entered the park by the marble arch. The Earl of Surrey, Treasurer of the Household, attended at the Palace, and conducted her Majesty to her carriage. Before the Queen's departure, her Majesty gave audiences to Viscount Melbourne. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Mr. J. B. Sale preFided at the organ for the first time since his appointment of organist of her Majesty's Chapels Royal. Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Mayo, Miss Boyle, and Earl Howe. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Princess Augusta yes terday at Clarence-house. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar arrived at Marlborough house yesterday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The Duke of Cambridge had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, the Nlarquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, Viscount Pal merston, Lord Glenelg, the Earl of Minto, Sir John Hob house, Lord Hulland, and Mr. Poulett Thomson. The Council sat an hour and a half. Lord Oxford, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, and Mr. St. John Mildmay, had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday. Lord Cranstoun had an interview with Lord Glenelg yes terday at the Colonial-office. Despatches from the Governors of the North American Provinces were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. WINDSOR. APRIL 11. —The Queen arrived at the Castle this afternoon at a quarter past 5 o'clock, escorted by a party of the Royal Horse Guards. Her Majesty was accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Lady Portman. Colonel Cavendish received her Majesty at the Castle. The following also arrived :—Lady Mary Stopford, Baroness Lehzen, Lady Gardiner, the Hon. Misses Lister, Cavendish, and Davys. The Marquis Conyngham, Lord Surrey, Lord Falkland, and Mr. Rich are expected to arrive in the course of the evening. The Queen will return to town in ten days or a fortnight. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Col. and Mrs. Dawkins, as Talbot's Private Hotel, Green street, Grosvenor-square, from Sandgate ; Brown, Esq., at ditto, from Oxford; H. Oglander, Esq., at Stevens's Hotel, Clifford-street, from the Isle of Wight ; John Bennett, Esq., at ditto, from Hampshire; Capt. Prenist, at ditto, from ditto ; John M‘Brain, Esq., at ditto, from Scotland; Sir Charles and Lady Grey, at the London Hotel, Albemarle street, from Scotland ; Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson and family, at ditto, from Brighton; Col. and Mrs. Archibald, at ditto, from Bath. DEPARTURES. Viscount St. Lawrence, from the London Hotel, Albe marle -street, for Melton Mowbray ; W. Clifford, Esq., and family, from ditto, for Ross, Herefordshire; R. B. Peake, Esq , from ditto, for Hungcrford ; Mr. and Mrs. Hargrave and family, from ditto, for Dover; Mr. Talbot Patterson, from Connaught-square, for Bushey, Herts; Sir Charles and Lady Colvell, Miss Colvell, and Mr. Colvell, from Hawkins's Hotel, Albemarle -street, and Dover-street; Lady Leslie Oswald and Miss Lindsey, from ditto, for Brighton; Sir Graham and Lady Moore, from ditto, on a tour; Captain and Mrs. Lutwti•che, from Talbot's Private Hotel, Green rtreet, Grosvenor-square, for Westmoreland ; Mrs. Jolliffe, from ditto, for her seat in Sussex ; Miss Whitclocke, from ditto, for Yorkshire; Mrs. West, from ditto, for her seat, Sandgate, Kent. The Duke of Sussex had a long interview yester day with their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Capua. The Earl and Countess of Tankerville gave a sumptuous entertainment, at thei r mans i on in Grosvenor square, to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Capua, on Tuesday evening. The Earl of Durham, Marquis of I..ansdowne, Earl Grey, Lord Stanley, Lord Ebrington, Hon. Bingham and Lady Harriet Baring, Right Hon. P. Thomson, Right Hon. Edward Ellice. Lady Georgians Grey, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Dawson Darner, Lord Ossul ston, &c., were invited to meet their Royal Highnesses. The refreshment tables abounded with the rarest delicacies, under the superintendence of Mr. Ferdinand, of Duke-street. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, and the Ladies Russell, who are also staying at Rome, are expected to arrive in Belgravc-square from their continental tour next month. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, and the infant Ladies Hamilton, have arrived at Rome from Nice, where they sojourned during the winter. It is probable that the Noble Marquis and his family will return to England, to he present at the coronation of the Queen. _ _ Prince Esterhazy's son-in•law, Count Chorinskv, who married the Princess Mary Esterhazy, is expected to arrive with his Countess at Chandos House early in June. On Saturday, the 7th current, Sir Walter Scott, Ba"onet, of Ancrum, was served heir by a Jury, Sir J. G. Da lyell, Chancellor, to William Graham, who qualified and voted as Earl Monteith, at the Peers election in 1744.--Edinburgh Courant. _ _ _ —• Count and Countess Leopoldina de Zichy will come over from Milan, in order to be present at the coronation of her Majesty. The Marquis of Hertford, the Guardian of the Countess, has left Milan, express for Paris, in consequence of the indisp3sition of his eldest son, the Earl of Yarmouth. CORONATIONS PitOCESSION.—At the coronation of the Kings and Queens of England for more than four cen ahabty o a f 3 cen turies, and as far back the ceremonyekastlieac was coun always se a x y tend to Richard 11., insprecede t cavalcade through the city of London. After having been omitted by King James 1., on account of the plague, this pro. cession Was added some months after as a " residue of the solemnities of the coronation." By Charles I. it was en tirely omitted on the same plea, but partly to save the ex pense, a war with France then pressing upon the resources of the Exchequer. At the coronation of Charles 11. it Was re- ' vived with enthusiasm, but for the last time. The most cele brated and costly of these progresses was that at the coro nation of the beautiful but unfortunate Queen Anna Boleyn, next to which is that of Queen Elizabeth, in whose hearty English present f e elings no subsequent M onarc h so f u ll y ass i m il ates as Sovereign. Eli za b et h, i t was remarked, was so desirous , to m eet half way th e e ff orts to d o her honour, that , i she was ready to take part herself in the allegorical pageants which were exhibited, and mixed in the dialogue of the ficti tious characters who addressed her. Taking with both hands the purse which they had presented to her, she said, " I thank my Lord Mayor, his brethren, and you all, and whereas your request is that I should continue your g oo d l a d y an d Q ueen , be ve assured t hat I will be as g oo d unto you as ever Queen her people. No will in me can lack, n e ith er d o I t rus t shall there lack any power. And persu a d e y ourse l ves th a t was to t t h o e safety and quietness of you all, I will not spare, if need he, to spend my blood. God thank you all." When RichardlL, with his train, proceeded through Cheapside, on t h e wa y to Westminster, the conduit at the upper end ran with wine during the whole time of the procession, which took up more than three hours. On the same spot also a castle with four towers was erected, from two sides of which issued abundance of wine ; and on each corner was a beautiful virgin of t he Kin g' s o wn age and statur e , who, face. When be came u p to the castle th e d amse l s took golden when he appeared at a distance blew leaves of gold in his cups, and, filling th em with wine, offered the m to him. On the top of the building was the image of an angel hold ingcrown of gold in tits hands , which was so ingeniously contrived that on a the Kng's approach it stooped a nd o ff ere d him the crown. L IFE IN LANCASTER CASTLE.—III the list of insolvents ordered to be discharged forthwith by the chief Commissioner last week, is the name of Leonard Albin. si nc e the last Court, it was said, Albin had been horsewhipped by a Dr. Lane, from Liverpool, for ungentlemanly conduct. Ile lent for a magistrate, who fined the Doctor 2/. and costs. The debtors hereupon subscribed, and gave the Doctor a dinner, at which he was presented with a whip, silver mounted, and bearing the following inscription on the handle :—" Pre sented by a few friends as a token of respect."—Lancaster Guardian. STATE OF TRADE.—There has been rather more business doing in the yarn market during the last few days, but at gradually declining prices. For goods the market has been flat, and prices rather lower than last week. —Manchester Guardian. WRONG S OF WOMEN.—A bold attack is to be made on the supremacy of the Lords of the Creation, in the next Number of The Metropolitan, in a paper to be entitled, 44 An Outline of the Grievances of Women." The subject, %ye know, is one that has long been slumbering in the female mind, and the sex will, we are assured, h a ve no cause to re gret the p en which is about to assume i ts championship. There is evid ent l y to b e re b e l l i on i n t h e camp , an d when once begun who c an te ll where or h ow i t may en d ? On Monday evening last, about eight o'clock , a respectable-looking elderly woman stopped at a broker's shop on Saffron-hill, and was bargaining with the owner relative to the purchas e o f a beer-machine, having all the aearanc e of pp good health a b out her, when she d roppe d d own and instantly expired. Serjeant Miles, of G division, who was passing by immediately carried her to the Ship, public-house, near the spot, and procured a surgeon, but life was quite extinct. Some papers were found in her possession, and on inquiry it was discovered that her name was Cook, and she resided with her husband at 62, Baldwin -street, City-road ; and that a short time prior to the awful dispensation of providence, she quitted home apparently in good health and spirits. At a numerous meeting of the Letter-press Printers of Glasg ow , Tuesday held in East Regent-street Session House, on evening, it was unanimously resolved to petition Parliament against the Bill brought in by Mr. Serjeant Tal fourd, relative to the law of copyright. Miss Julia Newman is, it appears, after all, to be sent to Van Diemen's Land, in the John Renwick transport with other female convicts. LIGHTING the HOUSE of COMMONS. lAfter the adjournment of the House last night, Sir Frederick Trench and some other Hoa. Members, who were anxious to try the effect of the new arrangement for lighting the House, re-called the attendants, who had previously made their ap pearance in the galleries, but who had been compelled to with draw from the vehement remonstrances of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Hume. The three large chandeliers, which hold about sixty wax-lights each, were then lighted, and the shades lowered over them, so as to prevent the glare of light affecting the eyes of persons in the side or end galleries, and the result was a powerful and steady light thrown upon the body of the House, which rendered every object distinctly visible at the remotest corners. The shades, which were pre pared in the course or Tuesday afternoon, after the House had been counted out, are of green glazed calico, stretched out upon a wooden frame-work, and somewhat resemble gigantic umbrellas or parachutes. The reporters' and strangers' gal leries are lighted by the chandeliers previously used for that purpose, but the Members' side galleries arc in " utter dark ness," and will afford very comfortable dormitories for those Hon. Gentlemen upon whom legislative eloquence usually exercises a soporific influence. This is the only point upon which it appears to us that any improvement or alteration trill be necessary. The light from the three centre chandeliers, with out any of the offensive glare of gas, is strong enough to enable persons in the body of the House to read the smallest print without difficulty ; and by a new plan, the chandeliers are lighted by a single touch of the taper, a thread of tow dipped in spirits of turpentine being carried round the lights. The face of the clock will, we understand, be blackened, and the figures and hands painted white ; and when this has be6n ef fected, we think the new arrangement will be found more efficient and generally satisfactory than any that has yet been tried. ISLE OF WIGHT. HER MAJESTY'S INTENDED VISIT TO COWES. Report says that the Isle of Wight is to be honoured not only with a visit from ouryoung Queen, who will take up her re sidence at Norris Castle, which she has occupied two former years, and always left with regret, but that another branch of the Royal Family wishes to take a house in West Cowes; the one selected (the Earl of Belfast's) being let to G. Ackers, Esq. The descriptions of others have been forwarded to town for approval. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. COWES, APRIL 11.—The Amazon cutter, 75 tons, Captain George Keane, is nearly ready for sea. The Kestrel cutter, 150 tons, the Right Hon. Lord Yarborough, is undergoing some alterations in her cabins, and is to be fitted with every possible dispatch. The following yachts are also in a forward state :—The Iris cutter, 75 tons, Sir R. B. W. Bulkeley, Bart. ; Witch cutter, 70 tons, Joseph Copley, Esq. ; Sul tana cutter, 49 tons, H. Robinson, Esq. ; and Therese cutter, 121 tons, Lord Clonbrock. The Nautilus cutter, 103 tens, Earl de Grey, is hauled off the mud. The Menai brigatine yacht, E. N. Harvey, Esq., sailed a few adays go for Brighton; she will proceed, in about a week, to the Weztern Islands and Madeira. Viscount Canning is daily expected here ; his schooner yacht, Gondola, is nearly ready for launching, from Mr. Jo seph White's slip, East Cowes, after undergaing some altera tions. The Duke of Newcastle's frigate yacht, fitted in the same yard, has been taken to pieces, to be carried round to Hull in the Ajax trader. Mr. Joseph White has a new cutter yacht in frame, of about 70 tons, for Mr. Delafield; she is to be ready by the Ist of June. ,On Tuesday last a yacht of 25 tons was launched from Mr. Hanson's yard, West Cowes, for James Saunderson, Esq., R. Y. S. ; and on Wednesday one of the same tonnage, and from the same yard, for T. L. Lane, Esq. Colonel Madden's yawl, the Dandy, and Mr. Cooper's cutter, the Eudorc, 60 tons, will be launched from Mr. Ratsey's slip, the latter end of the month. Colonel Buck's cutter, building in the same yard, is in a very forward state. We understand there are six candidates to be balloted for as Members, and nine as Honorary Members, at the next : .Teneral meeting, on the 12th of May, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street. POST OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS.—WC have been a long time promised that the island mails should be brought by a steamer, we are told that Government has entered into contracts for the conveyance by steam of two mails a day from Southamp• ton to Cowes ; but we know that there is but one mail brought, and that, during this week, in a boat, which does not reach Cowes till after nine o'clock in the morning, and many in the town of course cannot get their letters much before ten, and the letters cannot be delivered at Newport till after that hour, although the London and Bristol mails reach Southamp ton soon after four o'clock, which allows about five hours for twelve miles—rather slow work certainly; but nothing com pared With the Brighton mail, which is delayed in South ampton from the preceding day. I some time since sent you an account that the Government was about to contract for two mails a day being brought from Southend to Cowes, which the Southern. Advertiser thought proper to contradict, as they said by authority, as without the leest foundation. They have since been obliged to acknow ledge their ignorance, and that they had been deceived by their informant. MONEY and COMMERCIAL. MARKET. (From the Morning Papers of this day.) MORNING POST. —We understand the commercial letters from the United States contain orders to a greater amount than heretofore for British manufactured goods. An inquiry into the conduct of the Phmnix Bank at New York, which was charged with usurious and improper practices in the management of it:: discounting business during the late crisis, was going forward, but it is not likely that other banking establishments so fortunately circumstanced as the Vr.ceaix Bank are wholly free from such an imputatioi. The Phcen;x is known to he one of the most solid establishments in the Union as regards its pecuniary resources. The investigation to which we have alluded is said, in the Liverpool and other papers, to have been rendered necessary in consequence of its failure ; but this is altogether a mistake. The Phoenix is, on, the contrary, one of the very few of the New York banks which have continued paying their notes in specie from the first of the recent explosion. TIMES. - The Gazette of last night gives the official report on the state of the revenue, and informs the public that the excess of expenditure over the revenue for the year ending the sth instant is 655,7601. There cannot therefore be any out lay in the current quarter for the purpose of a sinking fund, and as no purchases are yet made on account of the saving banks, it is to be taken for granted that the whole of the sums derived from that source are applied in aid of the revenue. That Mr. Spring Rice is now driven to nearly his last shift is apparent enough ; he lives on the hope, perhaps, of some turn in affairs which may extricate him from his difficul ties, but lie may be assured that the soundest judges in the City can discern no such prospect, and that they do, on the contrary, think very despondingly of the present situation of our financial affairs. The anuuul budget, which cannot now be much longer delayed, will afford him the opportunity of ex plaining what his own view of the case may be. The private letters from New York by packet do not afford any sanguine anticipations among commercial men of an early change for the better in trade. The remark still is, among those who are best informed, that a comparatively small amount has yet been paid by those houses who failed in the early part of last year, and that a great number of them can never succeed in regaining their former position. Thus it be comes inevitable that a great change must take place in New York, and trade pass, in a great measure, into new hands, be fore it can be pronounced in a healthy state. What seems to be further required for that purpose is, that the cotton crop of this, and perhaps that of the next year, may be exported into Europe, and be realized at good prices, without, at the same time, leading to any importations of manufac tured goods beyond the actual wants of the country. This may be very difficult to carry into practice ; but if it succeeds, though it may set America right, it is a very bad omen for the manufacturing interest of Eng land. The great and absorbing question of the resumption of specie payments by the Banks is still agitated in the mercantile correspondence from New York, and the opinion gains strength, that, at least as regards the latter class of them, it cannot be long delayed. There are still some who doubt this, and more who look upon it, whenever it may occur, as an event to be dreaded and deplored. Of this latter party are the unsound banks, and all their adherents, whose weakness cannot fail in such a case to be fully exposed. There is an amusing game of etiquette going on between the New York and the Pennsylvania Banks, which still take the lead ; but the order of precedence is reversed, both wishing to be last in stead of first. The s!atement of the failure of the Phoenix Bank, which appears in the Papers this morning, is erroneous, and seems to have arisen from a belief entertained in New York that its charter was vitiated, and would be forfeited, on account of usurious transactions on a very large scale, in which it has been engaged since the commencement of the commercial crisis in the United States. An investigation was ordered by the Legislature, at the request of the Board of Trade, into the truth of the charges, which would seem to hare been first brought to light by certain proceedings in Chancery against the Bank, by some one or more of the parties which had deal ings with it. This investigation lasted several days, and al though the result was still unknown and undecided, and what it might end in, so far as the Bank was concerned, was still a question, yet a mass of evidence was produced of a most curi ous and startling description. In order to a better compre hension of the brief notice of the bank system developed on this occasion, it will be useful to give here the notice issued by the Phoenix Bank, as the rule of its operations during the suspension of specie payments:— " PMENIX BANK. " NOTICE. " It is hereby declared, that until further notice, the conditions on which this Bank deals with all persons are as follows " All deposits, other than of specie, will be repaid in notes of solvent Banks of this State, current in this City. Deposits made in specie will be repaid in kind. " The proceeds of all securities deposited with this Bank for collec tion, except when paid to this bank in specie, will be repaid in the man ner above stated. If such securities are c9llected out of this City, the Bank reserves the right of giving its checks for the proceeds, payable at the place of collection in Bank notes there current. " All discounts will be paid in the notes of solvent Banks of this City, and the same will be received in payment of discounted paper. " By order of the Board, " J. DEL AFIELD, Cashier.', " Oct. 28, 1837." The abuses charged against the Phoenix Bank are in sub stance charges for discounts of a most extortionate character, and a gross evasion of the rules laid down in their own pub lic notice. Thus, customers who presented for discount bills or bank paper, suppose upon New Orleans, or any other State Sr?" of the Union, were obliged to be content in Exchange, k 7 . -- I_F r . : l-, .-. with the notes of the Phoenix Bank itself, or with its chee e i.>/::k- : :' 5 - ; receivable in notes current at New Orleans, where the; 'faiil=';'-- , discounted were payable, but with checks or notes upon *a ''' , tte:..4r . - 7.7 . e„e, e' , .,,• u4or parties in some totally different Sta - e in a different q ~....4. V , -)k-ft.., -...---, of the Union. By this Operatic:la the Baek reklized a dOwl4.\?---.... ' - -',.:-.5..: usurious advantage ; for the rate of Exchatige on N. TV 1 0...... '' 'l , i ) -- 7441Z ' !cans being below par, the party applying for ea.sh wae elierwick i T i ‘ .7,,T --- .....: with th e ra t e o f di scount to w hi c h t h e exc h ange h a d falfell `'`"'"4o,:'"Vki besides the regular interest, amounting together, as the ccse might be, to 7,8, or 10 per cent. This, hcwe,-er, was net the worst, for the Bank paid the unforemate customer, as be fore said, in bills or notes upon other Banks in dis tant quarters, which he could only dispose of in the market upon another discount of three or four per cent., as the rate of exchange might happen to be. Ceses were like wise adduced where the Bank had charged for cellt- etiee, by means of its correspondents, of hills eret notes payeb! e wt other parts of the Union deposited with it, at the r; to of (; and 8 per cent., when the regular charge was no more time !,- per cent., and such notes being receivable with the current rates of exchange added at the place where demandable, the Bank took to account besides the 3 or 4 per cent. thus receied. Thus, for a bill delivered in for payment at Chichago, 8 per cent. was taken for collection ; and the exchange bcieg 3 ' per cent. against that place, to be paid as expressed on the ' face of the bill by the acceptor, the Bank took that 3 per cent. in addition. To account for these extr.ordinary transactions, and stave off the odium attaching to the Plum nix Bank and the forfeiture of its Charter, Mr. Delafield, the President and late Cashier, was examined, end be proceeded to state, that being financial agent for several States of the Union, as well as distant Corporations, and also that private capitalists were in the habit of placing large sums in his hands fur investment, the large amount of usurious transactions of which alone proof had been given wss was for his own account in respect of his agencies, and in no way connected with the Bank, or his position . : s Piesident of it. In his capacity as such agent, he stated that he was charged with collecting bills and other obligations of his employer,; in New York, and cf remitting the amounts, in the course of which, and to wake the best of the funds for his principles, he considered himself justified in availing himself of all such ad vantages as the state of the times and the money-market put in his power. Altogether this affair has caused a great sensa tion, and an unfavourable impression, not only against the Phoenix, but the banks generally, which were judged to have more or less pursued the same practices. The investigation was going on when theSe accounts left New York. The shares of the Bank had fallen in a few days about 9 per cent. MiklitilNG HERALD. —o . vr merchants .have not attached much'importance to the commercial - information which they have received from the United States to-day. It appears. however, that in New York, there has been improved demand for British fabrics; at the same time money had become, ac cording, to the Yankee term, rather tighter, in consequence of the determination of the banks to resume specie payments ; on which subject many of" the letters speak with much confi dence as to their general capability, whilst some rather doubt the issue. • It seems that a good deal of sensation had prevailed at New York in consequence of some charges of usurious dealings which had been made against the Phoenix bank by the Board of Trade, but the report of the Committee appointed to investigate them, was not expected to be made public until a week after the last dates. We believe that we are acting but fairly in stating, however, that the Phoenix Bank is not of that insolvent character which was given to it by a morning contemporary. With respect to the statements lately made by another morning contemporary respecting the ejectment of Mr. Cowell from the apartments provided for him in Philadelphia, at the instance of Mr. Biddle, in consequence of some angry c!wrcspondencc between the Bank of the United States and the Bank of England, we arc enabled now to state that there has been no foundation for either statement. All that has passed between the two Banks have been letters of mutual regret, that the nroposition of the United States Bank could not be acceded to by the Bank of England in conformity with the By-laws of the latter eGrporation. MORNING CHRONICLE.-All improvement of per cent. has again taken place to-day in Consols, although there was very little business transacted. There is very little alteration in the quotations for Shares, and this has been altogether rather a quiet day in the Market fur them. Spanish Securities have again receded slightly, under an impression that there was some difficulty in the way of the Spanish Government raising a loan through the agency of M. Aguado ; but this seems to r.-st entirely upon the reports at the Paris Bourse. Dutch Stocks have risen ; but this is always the case, as tve befi,re detailed upon or soon after the arrival of advices from Holland, espeeidrly when there has been any marked depression in this market. The purchases were extensive, and made in large amounts; but the public continue to sell in small sums. MilliCh is sufficient to show that confidence in them was lbsing ground, and that the greatest exertions ;re required to maintain the price of the stock. It has been stated that accoMing to merc,Mtile usage only one-half of the policy and freight a7e forfeited when the ship ments are withdrawn, and thence it, has been attempted to make it appear that the Bank has not lestAs,o9o/ , as we asserted, but only one-half that amount. We represented the loss as one per cent. upon the bullion Withdrawn from ex portation, and as the money is chiefly in -silver, which is twenty times more bulky than gold, and the freight and surance upon gold are well kn.iwn to be nearly 2 per cant. Letween London and Now York, it is clear that we have very much understated the loss to the Bank when taken at per cent., or one-half of the insurance and f;eight. S P RT IN G IN T- LLI GEN CE LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. CHESTER TRADE cur. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Birdlime—offered 6 to 1 agst General Yates's Sylvan—taken 15 to 2 agst Mr. Price's Wentworth—taken 8 to 1 agsE Mr. Robinson's Whaley—taken ,11 to 1 agst Mr. Ciarke's Magician—offered 14 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Mersey 16 to I agst Mr. Fairlie's Zohrab 100 to 6 agst Lord Derby's Parolles—offered 100 to 6 agst Mr. Bower's Lord Stafford—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Barrow's Catharina —offered 20 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Combat 27 to 1 agst Mr. B. Collett's Conservative Offers were made to-day (Tuesday) to take 100 to 5 that either Chit Chat or Galewood win ; at the same time, the word was 7 to 1 on the field, bar two. IRELAND. DUBLIN, APRIL 10. Ton REGISTRY.—Owing to the apathy of the professing Liberals, their more active opponents obtained a considerable majority yesterday. TIPPEIIAR Y TIIAGEDI. —The Government has offered a reward of 3001. for the apprehension of the murderers of Mr. Austin Cooper. The indi-cency displayed upon the occasion by Lord Glengal, and the Tory Magistrates sill, no doubt, meet with its merited reproof by the Press of this country. TILE CONSTABULARY.—Curious enough—but, after all, not so very strange—the Extremes are quite angry at the appoint ment of Colonel M‘Gregor to the office vacant by the resigna tion of Colonel Shaw Kennedy. We believe we can satisfy the public, that few men in the service are mere fitting for the appointment than the brave and humane Colonel of the 93d Regiment. With all our nationality, we arc delighted that the appointment has not gone to a "native."—Dublin Even ing Post. TITHES —Scarce a day passes but the provinciJ papers bring under notice seine oppressive and el . :id case connected with the collection of Tithes. In the last number of the Wevqn-1 Independent the case of a widow, Mrs. Kchoe, who has been sued by the Rev. Mr. Robinson, is a particularly hard one. The costs nearly eaual the demand for tithe. THE POST-OFFICE —The Dublin Evcuiay Post complains of this department in Dublin. Papers, it is said, are daily detained—for the particular pleasure and especial perusal, we presume, of some of the official minnows. That the Dublin papers do not always duly reach theirdestination, weourselves well know ; for on more than one occasion when they have contained intelligence of importance, The Sun has either not seen them at all, or not until they were unfit for use. COURT OF REQUESTS. CASTLE STREET, APRIL iO. CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC AGAINST THE BUYING (,F TICKETED GOODS —This was a case of considerable interest to the public at large. Mr. Wiicoxou, shoemaker and vendor, who has time shops, was summoned by Mr. Hunt, of No. 105 Regent-street, to reimburse the amount of 6s. 6d. for a pair of Ladies' shoes, purchased in Regent's Quadrant, at one of the defendant's shops. It appeared that upon Mts. Hunt's putting on the shoes, they immediately rent, being rotten, in consequence of which she returned them, and requested to have them ex changed for another pair, or the money ; but instead of so doing, Mr. Wilcoxon had the damaged shoes vamped up, and sent them again to Mrs. Hunt, who now returned them upon the vender's hands. The opinion of the Commissioners was, after their hearing the parties, that as the shoes in question were ticketed goods, exhibited and priced, the complainant had no remedy, but must abide by her purchase, she having bought what is com monly called " a pig in a poke." This morning, about twenty minutes before eleven o'clock, as a gentleman, with two ladies, was crossing the Strand, opposite . to Wellington.street, one of the Chelsea umnibusscs, proceeding in the direction of Charing-cross, ran against him and knocked him down, the horses trampling. upon him, and both wheels passing over his loins. Assistance was instantly procured, and the unfortunate gentleman was con veyed in a cab to Charing-cross Hospital in a very dangerous condition. The two ladies escaped unhurt. HULL ELECTION.—The proceedings during the week on the Hull Scrutiny are most satisractory ; a great number of voters have been struck off on the ground of treat ing and bribery, and on the rising of the Committee on Satur day, the counsel for the petitioners had commenced with the objection.to Mr. R. Catticy, vgainst whom bribery is alleged. The class of Barton voters who were struck cff wcr i e .og proved to have received drink at a beer - h ouse and at the White Swan, in Barton, in addition to breakfas ts, dinners, and grog, their wives, at the Humber Tavern, Hull. Up to Saturday evening there had been struck off—Paupers, 16; bribld and treated, 35 ; total, 51. The result of the scrutiny up to that period had been to place Mr. Hutt 34 above Wilber orce and 43 above James; Mr. Wood was 33 below Wilber:orce and 24 below James. —Hull Observer.